John Quotes

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

Nature is a series of murders.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.

Make an offer they can't refuse.

A good headline can make an advertisement good even if the picture is poor.

Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.

For every curiosity headline that succeed in getting results, a dozen will fail.

Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest.

The advertiser's logotype at the bottom of the ad can be considered as part of the headline. After reading the headline, the reader instinctively looks down at the logotype to see the company name.

If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.

If the headline is a good one, it is a relatively simple matter to write the copy.

An advertisement will be a good one - that is if the headline is really a "stopper."

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

The last time the three of us were in the ring together, it was pretty awesome. Vickie, we had a sweet, sexy, passionate make-out session. Dolph you remember! You were there! You were cool with it.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

I'm a huge car guy, I cannot wait to see it [Ferrari World]. I hear there is also unbelievable golf which I'd like to sample and I'm looking forward to seeing what the gym facilities are like

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

You're gonna get helped, if you're lacking it, in any way, because everybody's objective is to make a good picture.

I don't wanna wrestle Big Show tonight because I'm scared that he's gonna eat me!

If you continue to act now and be a member of the WWE Universe, you will see the same footage from... another... camera angle.

I JUST GOT THE CRAP BEAT OUTTA ME!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, King of the Stupid Question: Todd Grisham!

For the past 9 years, the WWE has been my home!

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

I will be here and be around, watching over you. You can bet on that. I'll find a way to get some peanuts and take some beer and tell some lies.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.